Christianity is fundamentally misunderstood by many believers who approach it as a system of character modification rather than what it truly is—a blood covenant with God. This distinction is crucial because it changes everything about how we approach our faith and relationship with God.
Many Christians spend years trying to please God through religious acts—long prayers, extended fasting, or avoiding certain behaviors—without understanding that God is already pleased with them through the covenant. The issue isn’t that these spiritual practices are wrong; in fact, practices like praying in tongues and fasting are beneficial. However, we need to understand their true purpose in our spiritual journey.
Praying in tongues, for example, isn’t something we do to make God happy or to convince Him to bless us. Rather, it builds us up spiritually, giving clarity of vision and strengthening our spirit. It’s comparable to eating food—you don’t eat to please someone else; you eat for your own nourishment and strength. Similarly, spiritual practices are for our spiritual growth and development, not to earn God’s favor.
Christianity is not a religion where people obey rules to make God happy. It’s not about ascending to a higher plane through discipline or deprivation. It’s not even about becoming a “good person,” because we’ve all already failed at that standard. Instead, Christianity is a blood covenant—an unbreakable agreement between God and humanity that benefits both parties.
Throughout human history, blood covenants have been recognized as the most binding form of agreement. They’re irreversible, sacred, and generational. The blood covenant is the basis of all meaningful human relationships and has been central to spiritual practices across cultures for millennia. The spiritual realm recognizes this fundamental law: without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness or covenant establishment.
What makes the Christian covenant extraordinary is that it wasn’t sealed with animal blood or human blood, but with God’s own blood through Jesus Christ. This makes it the most powerful covenant possible. When Jesus died on the cross, it wasn’t just a symbolic act—it was God’s legal way of entering our world to redeem it from satanic oppression.
Many successful people and organizations throughout history have understood the power of covenants. Some have made pacts with lesser spiritual entities to gain wealth and power. As Christians, we have access to the most powerful covenant with the Creator Himself, yet many believers don’t understand how to live from this covenant reality.
In this new covenant, God has promised to write His laws on our hearts and minds, to be our God while we are His people, to forgive our wickedness and remember our sins no more, and to put His Spirit within us. This means transformation happens from the inside out—not through external pressure for behavioral change, but through the indwelling Spirit.
The way we access this covenant is the same way we initially received salvation: by believing and confessing. Romans 10:9 tells us that if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved. This same principle applies to every aspect of covenant living.
Life is fundamentally spiritual. Your physical existence and hard work don’t contribute to spiritual life. The sooner we understand and operate in covenant consciousness, the better it will be for us individually and for the body of Christ collectively. This covenant consciousness is the mother of manifestation in our lives.